Motherhood

I have always been a runner. That doesn’t mean I’m an impressively fast athlete, but running has always been a part of my life, going back to when I was 12 years old. Long before children, I went on...

Tonight, I did one of my favorite things: I went to see a movie by myself. All by myself. I like to pick a movie that I know my husband or kids will not like, devour some nachos or...

Recently, my neighbor passed away after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. She was only in her early forties and left behind a husband and young son. Her loss hit very close to home and made me stop and...

We've all heard the stories of little mouths repeating curse words they overheard. Parents typically try to censor television and movies, so their kids are not exposed to anything inappropriate. But the reality is that kids are watching us...

Recently, Serena Williams competed in her 18th singles tournament in Wimbledon. Although she was runner up to Angelique Kerber from Germany, she has actually already won that title seven times and has an amazing 779 career match wins. This year...

Getting pregnant is one of those life events that sets a lot of other things into motion, whether you like it or not. A lot of these things are obvious: you anticipate the purchase of an insane amount of...

Breastfeeding is hard. Really hard. Motherhood is hard. And if you're anything like me, you have a constant, nagging voice pointing out all your mistakes until they tally up to a giant failure in your mind and a snowball quickly...

I am going to come right out and tell you that I am a stroller snob. This doesn’t mean that I push my children around in a $1200 vintage pram or use one of these fancy contraptions, although I...

I didn't get anything done today.   My "to do" list fell by the wayside when my 6-month old woke up from her nap ten minutes in and needed to be snuggled back to sleep. There I sat, trapped beneath...

A struggling first-time mom and her quarrels with adjusting to a life that is not her own anymore … sound familiar? Many of us can relate to the painful transition of becoming a first-time mom; the agonizing exhaustion and the...

I love Facebook’s “On This Day” feature. Last week I was particularly stressed as I was trying to get through finals as a grad student while still being a mother of three children. On Facebook, a conversation I had with...

Pregnancy. That beautiful time in a woman's life when perfect strangers feel they can say anything - and everything - they want to you. Because that's clearly the ONE time in a woman's life when our self-confidence is soaring high enough...